Sentence examples for a modern thing from inspiring English sources

It's a modern thing, one of life's new dilemmas.

It is quite a modern thing to be a practising Muslim.All of this worries non-Muslims, especially the Chinese, who have suffered persecution in the past.

But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16 and I was at the gymnasium and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all".

I think it's a very good thing and it's a modern thing that we try now to incorporate our culture.

We do know that her power as a representative for the underclasses is really a modern thing.

On the other hand, there are those who eschew nostalgic reveries and cite a staunchly modern thing from their own past: a 1980s Transformer, a 1990s wristwatch-camera, the iPad they bought yesterday.

It must be a very modern thing".

"One of the odd things about fundamentalism in its American form, but not exclusively, is that it's paradoxically a very modern thing," he told me.

It's a very modern thing.

In comparison with other couples in Ma's study, the rural migrant couple displayed a 'low level of visual competence and limited urban experience' did not subscribe to the 'subtle layers of visuality in wedding romances and myths' but thought that wedding photography was a 'trendy and modern thing to do' (Ma 2006: 61).

However, if you're going to do the T-shirt with a suit – a perfectly acceptable and modern thing – then Ben Whishaw is your pin-up.